Word: tsarist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin (pronounced pot-yom-kin), 68, former U.S.S.R. Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, whose tactful, pactful diplomacy was largely responsible for treaties with Italy (1933) and France (1935); after long illness; in Moscow. A revolution-minded mathematics teacher in Tsarist days, amiable polyglot (septilingual) Potemkin championed collective security, was Maxim Litvinoffs longtime right-hand...
...hush-hush policy. While it had a military consideration (Russia's joining in the Japanese war), the agreement itself was as political as a pork barrel. Stalin's help in the Far East was to be rewarded with the Kuril Islands, an "independent" Mongolia and all Tsarist Russia's Far East rights. Roosevelt promised to get China's concurrence. This Yalta deal was the basis of last year's Sino-Russian pact (TIME...
...Masters of Souls. It was right and natural that Party organizers and officials should get the good things first. Kalinin reminded them that they take the place of many Tsarist officials, "the police chief, the chairman of the district nobility, the chairman of the elected district council, the inspector of people's education, the dean of the cathedral...
After 40 years, Japan had lost the rugged peninsula (as big as Great Britain) from which she had launched her Co-Prosperity Sphere. Soviet Russia had be come a power in the empire outpost which Tsarist Russia coveted...
During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks had no time for the Mongolian steppe lands. But in 1921 a Tsarist refugee, the fantastic "Bloody Baron" Michael von Ungern-Sternberg, made Outer Mongolia's metropolis, Urga (pop: 50,000), a base for operations against Russia. So the Bolsheviks liquidated him and moved into Urga, which they renamed Ulan Bator Khoto (Mongol for "City of the Red Hero...